Spray Dryers

No one knows more about spray drying than GEA. Our expertise has been gained over close to a century, during which time we have designed and supplied more than 10,000 GEA NIRO® spray drying plants all over the world, and carried out tests for customers in different industries.

Industrial spray dryers

Our fully customizable and highly reliable spray dryers deliver quality powders that enable you to meet your customers’ needs today and tomorrow.

Pilot plant spray dryers

GEA's range of pilot & small scale spray dryers are designed specifically for R&D, product development and for production in small volumes.

Spray drying test center

An unparalleled range of equipment, expertise and support for designing and testing drying processes for foods, beverages, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

Safety & 24/7 production

GEA spray drying plants feature a suite of integrated components and technologies designed to give you confidence in the safety of your processes, equipment, and people, while supporting your drive for 24/7 production.

Efficiency & quality in spray drying

Processing top quality spray dried powders shouldn’t mean having to compromise on efficiency. Our spray dryers are designed to minimize waste and product loss, boost yield and productivity, and deliver excellent results.

Sustainability in spray drying

Spray drying is an energy-intensive process, so here at GEA we work hard to develop technologies that can help to improve sustainability by reducing overall energy use, recycling waste heat and cutting carbon footprint.

Michigan Milk Producers

GEA OptiPartner improves spray dryer performance at MMPA.

Yili

Yili-GEA partnership supports innovation for safe, future-focused manufacturing

ICAI

A spray dryer partnership focused on safety and the environment

Valfoo / Cremo

Ambitious project develops spray drying process for lactoferrin

Mokate

The largest FILTERMAT® unit in Poland used for hot drinks and nutritional supplements

Seagarden

FSD® spray dryer used for fish-based hydrolyzed collagen peptide products

Arla Foods

Producing the highest quality infant nutrition ingredients

Danone

Delivering solutions for sustainable baby formula manufacturing

Mother Murphy’s

The essence of a flavor factory

DMK

GEA OptiPartner improves DMK-Zeven plant

Amul

Asia's largest skim milk powder plant

GEA OptiPartner process optimization

Spray drying, optimized

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